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Land grabs are partly to blame for skyrocketing violence in Central America
- Huffington Post
- 16 January 2017
Global firms and local elites are taking land from farmers, which pushes them to cities, where jobs are few.
Cassava pact with Chinese firm 'a big boost'
- Daily News
- 16 January 2017
Tanzania has entered into a $US 1 billion partnership agreement on commercialisation of cassava farming and processing with Tanzania Agricultural Export Processing Zone Limited and Epoch Agriculture from China.
Investors wake up to ag value
- Farm Weekly
- 16 January 2017
Canadian investors - particularly pension funds - have led the way in changing Australian city money attitudes to agriculture.
Development of new horticultural area in Ethiopia
- Bloemisterij
- 13 January 2017
While Dutch ag investors get priority access to 1500 ha near Hawassa, their embassy is helping the Ethiopian government start a conversation with its discontented population.
Emploi des enfants mineurs : Un adolescent camerounais porte plainte contre V. Bolloré
- Infos Cameroun
- 13 January 2017
Soutenu par un cabinet d’avocat français, Guillaume Eboh Dipanda, jeune riverain des plantations de la Société Camerounaise des Palmeraies (Socapalm), vient de trainer Vincent Bolloré devant les tribunaux de Paris.
The synthesis of the thirteen WFAL2016 world meeting workshops are now available
- WFAL
- 13 January 2017
Read the synthesis of the thematic sessions which took place on the 31st March, 1st and 2 April 2016 in Valencia, Spain, during the global forum of the World Forum on Access to Land and Natural Resources.
Les synthèses des treize ateliers de la rencontre mondiale du FMAT2016 sont disponibles!
- WFAL
- 13 January 2017
Consultez la synthèse de chacune des sessions thématiques qui ont eu lieu les 31 mars, 1er et 2 avril 2016 lors du Forum Mondial sur l'Accès à la Terre et aux ressources naturelles à Valencia (Espagne).
Une année d’espoir à la Socapalm?... Peut-être
- Palmespoir
- 13 January 2017
Quelques très insignifiants frémissements semblent signaler un changement de mentalité au sein de l’ogre SOCAPALM au Cameroun. Le loup serait-il devenu un agneau ?
Rui Feng still clearing farmland, villagers say
- Phnom Penh Post
- 13 January 2017
China sugarcane company Rui Feng continued its campaign to clear disputed land in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia yesterday, even after a video of its employees seemingly trying to beat villagers surfaced online earlier this week.
Sugar company worn out by empty promises
- Cambodia Daily
- 12 January 2017
Some 100 farmers who have spent the past 11 days sleeping on land to guard it from bulldozers in Preah Vihear province, Cambodia are exhausted by empty promises from the government to solve their problem.
India's top court queries land use in special economic zones
- Place
- 12 January 2017
In India, of the almost 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of land acquired for SEZs in the last five years, only 362 hectares have been used for their intended purpose, according to SEZ Farmers' Protection Welfare Association despite farmers have been devastated by the loss of their land.
Le foncier qui tue !
- Le Sud Online
- 12 January 2017
Les litiges fonciers sont récurrents au Sénégal et sont le plus souvent facteurs de violences et de cas de décès.